Mysterious Sounds Troubling Clintonville, Wisconsin

Clintonville, Wisconsin has been assaulted the last few days by strange booming noises and shaking. The town of 5,000, located near Green Bay, has become greatly concerned as no reason for the noises and shaking has been discerned so far. Residents have begun to leave to town due to their concern about them.

"I think we can rule out that standard earthquake activity, [that] some swarm of earthquakes is happening in that region. It also really looks like it’s not connected to, say, unusual drilling activity or some other kind of real obvious human induced signal," Harold Tobin, one of those professors in the Geoscience department at the University of Wisconsin told WKOW.

Tobin, and other scientists that have been called in, have not yet been unable to figure out what could be causing the noises. So far they've managed to rule out problems with the water and sewer system, elevated gas levels, area blasting or mining, industrial businesses, and even military operations. They hope to bring in instruments that record noise in the air, and also ground vibrations at a higher frequency. In doing so they would hopefully be able to identify the sounds, and locate the source.

"I think that right now the greatest possibility is that it is some sort of natural phenomenon. I think that it’s a possibility that there is some earth shifting going on underneath the ground that creates those popping sort of exploding popping or vibrating noises that people feel," City Administrator Lisa Kuss said to WBAY.